A reservoir capacitor is a capacitor that is used to smooth the pulsating DC from an AC rectifier. The reservoir capacitor releases its stored energy during the part of the AC cycle when the AC source does not supply any power. This allows the load to be powered at all times.
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“It’s very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled “the past,” and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)